Probably Science

Comedian/ musician Eli Braden ( @EliBraden ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss jazz addicts , the flat-earth rocket guy  and his earlier flight , conspiracy theories, not a head transplant , prehistoric women's strength , why  boning is heart-safe , mnemonics, grossing out chimps , health codes and California D.

Science writer, educator, and artist Dr. Danna Staaf recently published her first book, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods , and she joins Matt and Andy to talk about her dissertation on the reproduction and early life of Humboldt squid, penis fencing among hermaphroditic flatworms, the fact that calamari pre-date the dinosaurs, and why we should all have a lot more respect and awe...

Comedian/freestyle rapper Chris Turner  ( @ChrisPJTurner ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about archeology, volcano-based Roman shit, old wine , old Amish people , gay evolution , monkeys playing chicken and the theory of mind . This episode is sponsored by Hello Fresh. For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter "probably30" at checkout.

Comedian Raj Desai ( @_rajdesai ) almost makes himself late to his job writing for Sarah Silverman's  I Love You, America to do a morning recording with Andy and Matt about his chromatography history , looking more closely at the placebo effect , and how the extinction of dinosaurs made way for mammals to come out during the day .

Comedian Jason Saenz ( @jasonsaenz ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Jeff Foxworthy impressions, Saenz Signs , debunked early psychology experiments, oyster hearing , competition-grade oysters, squirrels and lepers , armadillo leprosy in Florida, gold and the documentary series Connections , a good moonbase location ,  Pluto's Cave , herbal meds and cancer ,  blood sweat  and Jason's hilarious C...

Comedian Galloway Allbright (@GalloWhy ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss the death of expertise, extreme Michael Jackson fandom , that classic Encyclopedia Brittanica ad , the origin of bluegrass , in-flight death plans , channeling your inner Tea Leoni , a neutron star collision , the LIGO song, psilocybin for depression , genes for OCD , Cary Grant's crazy parental history and LSD , a fundraiser...

Original co-host Brooks Wheelan ( @brookswheelan ) and LA PodFest co-founder/ The Dollop host Dave Anthony join Matt and Andy for a live Probably Science from the Millenium Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles as part of the 2017 Los Angeles Podcast Festival.

Comedian and host of the Tea With Alice podcast Alice Fraser  ( @aliterative ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss jet lag, breaking the seal, MS, a duck update (duckdate?) with video , a body clock Nobel Prize , Dr. Matt Walker's new sleep book , a LIGO Nobel Prize  and Janna Levin's book on it , the downside of grass-fed beef , and cargo cults .

Comedian Sharon Houston ( @sharon_houston ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss flavor profiles, hurricane prep, Hemingway lookalikes, wolverines , duck dicks , finger phone contact , genes vs. alleles, the concept of zero , chisanbop counting , zapping people out of vegetative states , spider sacrifice and more duck dicks.

Comedian Casey Ley ( @caseywley ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about Andy's car, gay genes , gay face and AI , the first openly gay guy ever , snow leopards becoming less endangered , the end of Cassini , whether or not Saturn would float in water , the first live 4K video from space , the life of Sam Blackman , and Casey's podcast . This episode is brought to you by Hello Fresh. Visit hellofresh.c...

Comedian and author of Real Artists Have Day Jobs (and three other books) Sara Benincasa  ( @SaraJBenincasa ) invited Matt and Andy into her kitchen to talk about Burning Man, Woodstock '99, talking people down from drugs, creating cryptocurrencies , Space Camp vs. Space Academy, whiskey dilution , faces trained on Skype , Zika for brain tumors , and the secret messages contained in dogs' sneezes...

Applied Physics Laboratory engineer (and Andy's old college roommate) Dipak Srinivasan returns to the podcast to talk about his work on the Mercury MESSENGER mission , the Pluto New Horizons flyby (that'll also soon be visiting Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 ), and most importantly, the upcoming Parker Solar Probe and a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa , the most likely place in our solar system to...

Comedy's Kara Klenk ( @karaklenk ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about why Trump isn't good for comedy , bad forensics , hungry thinky worms , penis biting, bleach enemas to cure autism , slugs , Canaanites who just won't die  and The Goldwater Rule .

Comedian Heather Thomson ( @CasualVelvet ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss early email addresses, Woodboys, laws of mathematics that don't apply in Australia , why chimps are pussies , how humans can out-jog horses , antibiotic lies , reversing brain damage with oxygen , Moon water , and the avocado hand epidemic .

Comedian Jim Hegarty ( @jimhegarty ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about good and bad TV, the Up Series , fireworks contamination , dog domestication , junk DNA , the crazy fly book price , Brewster's Millions rules, egg shapes  and egg refrigeration .

Jason Reich ( @jasonmreich ), the head writer of The Jim Jefferies Show , joins Matt and Andy to discuss eating street apples and syringes, Vegas strategy, an HIV cure , why job interviews are bullshit , old dads with geeky sons follow-up, gonorrhea vaccines , vaquitas , fireworks technology , Alex Jones before and (redder) after  and what Goop has in common with Infowars .

Cognitive behavior therapist Dr. Jane Gregory joins Matt and Andy to talk about her work and how she helps people suffering from anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and more, along with her fantastic blog Cognitive Behave Yourself  in which she puts her money where her mouth is and subjects herself to some of the techniques that she asks her patients to use.

Comedy's Maggie Maye ( @Maggiemayehaha ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss first TV bed-sharers , rival Amarillo songs, coconut oil , why it's too hot to fly , heat-based reptile sex swapping , older dads and geeky sons , neutron decay , lying chatbots  and wobbling suitcases .

Writer and comedic actor Lucas Kavner ( @lucaskavner ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about rebooted shows, reporting on robots, dog and wolf sharing , how breakfast affects benevolence , Einstein's impossible experiment finally performed , gut bacteria and dinosaur sex .

Comedian Curtis Cook  ( @Curtis_Cook ) writes with Matt on The Jim Jefferies Show , and he sits down to discuss fancy premiere parties and imposter syndrome, catapult-making, how depressing the first Peanuts comic strip is , how AI will beat humans at everything by 2060 , Moravec's paradox , dino feathers and scales , getting re-upped on your vaccines , rust getting unfairly blamed for tetanus  an...

Renee Colvert ( @ReneeColvert ) of the hit podcast Can I Pet Your Dog? joins Matt and Andy to discuss Paris disagreements, dog podcasting, universal healthcare , Savage/Soundgarden, Australian healthcare, another LIGO victory , Janna Levin's book , the Parker Solar Probe , the monkey mafia who steal your stuff and sell it back to you for a cracker ,  measuring sheep pain , and hand-washing rules .

Comedian and  Jim Jefferies Show  writer  Subhah Agarwal ( @Subhah ) joins co-writer Matt and Andy to talk about actuarial tables and suicide, copying comics, asteroid timing , river meandering , a perfect dino , stable flamingos , Italian vaccines , mussel gloop for scarring , pretty pics of Saturn's rings  and a puffy styrofoam planet .

Neil deGrasse Tyson  ( @neiltyson ), astrophysicist, science communicator and author of the fantastic new book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry , joins Matt and Andy for a Definitely Science episode, discussing, well, the entire universe: Its origins, the forces that govern it, general relativity, the multiverse, dark matter, dark energy, the fact that the universe is under no obligation to make...

Live from the 10th annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, Matt and Andy welcome Reed College professor and cultural anthropologist specializing in health and medicine in southern Africa Dr. Betsey Brada , anthropologist specializing in bardic song in contemporary Russia Dr. Brian Horne , and the voice of Crow on Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return Hampton Yount ( @hamptonyount...

Comedy powerhouse Russell Howard ( @russellhoward ) joins Matt and Andy to chat about unintentional rudeness, new spider species , birds of paradise dances, Catalina and gerbil smuggling, more spiders, scaring off mice, artificial wombs  and throwing things .